Managers and their Wives: A study of career and family relationships in the middle class

The study covers the period 1965-1967. The papers are stored in one archival box and are sorted into twelve folders. Folders one to ten contain completed questionnaires; folder eleven contains metadata and background information; folder twelve contains research related correspondence.

This study was concerned with middle class men and women typically living in privately built houses on suburban estates around the major industrial cities of Britain. The man was viewed in his career as a manager, and, at home, as husband and father. The woman was viewed as a manager's wife as well as a mother or employee in her own right. The research endeavoured to present some of the dilemmas such people faced in relating their work life to their family life, and considered related issues of value, ambition, success and reward.

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Confidentiality

The materials held in the collection contain personal and identifying information. It is essential that the privacy of all respondents is not infringed. No real names or any other identifiable information used in the studies may appear in public. No attempt may be made to contact respondents directly. Use of the materials to derive information relating specifically to an identified individual or to claim to have done so is prohibited.

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The collection was acquired and prepared for archiving by Qualidata in 1998 and deposited in the NSPSCA.

Additional material is not expected

J.M. Pahl and R.E. Pahl, 'Managers and their wives : A study of career and family relationships in the middle class' Allen Lane, 1971

National Social Policy and Social Change Archive (NSPSCA), Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex